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Fallen Land
Patrick Flanery
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Description for Fallen Land
Paperback. Following the critical acclaim for his debut, Patrick Flanery's Fallen Land is his astonishing break-out novel; a nail-biting story powered by a fierce anger at the utter failure of the American dream, and the greatest fears that lurk in every one of us. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 294.
Poplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forebear from a white landowner after a lynching. Now, the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down; a mini-massacre replicating the destruction of lives and societies taking place all over America.
Architect of this destruction is Paul Krovik, a property developer soon driven insane by the failure of his dream. Julia and Nathaniel arrive from Boston with their son, Copley, and buy up Paul's signature home in a foreclosure sale. They move into the half-finished subdivision and settle in to their brave new ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
293g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857898791
SKU
V9780857898791
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About Patrick Flanery
Patrick Flanery was born in California in 1975 and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He studied Film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and earned a PhD in Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Oxford. He contributes articles to a number of academic journals and he has written for Slightly Foxed, the Daily Telegraph and ... Read more
Reviews for Fallen Land
A gripping thriller and a superb portrayal of how ordinary men can veer into madness, but its real power lies in its recognition of the tragic failure of an American dream
John Burnside
Guardian
Thrillingly tense and atmospheric... Comparisons to Nathaniel Hawthorne would not be extravagant
Financial Times
Gripping... As the tension builds to the ... Read more
John Burnside
Guardian
Thrillingly tense and atmospheric... Comparisons to Nathaniel Hawthorne would not be extravagant
Financial Times
Gripping... As the tension builds to the ... Read more